{"id":987,"date":"2013-11-07T13:54:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=987"},"modified":"2013-11-07T13:54:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:54:41","slug":"open-letter-to-classical-91-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2013\/11\/open-letter-to-classical-91-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Classical 91.7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Trapani Shumate<br \/>\nExecutive Director &amp; General Manager<br \/>\nKUHA-FM Classical 91.7 Houston Public Radio<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:lshumate@houstonpublicmedia.org\">lshumate@houstonpublicmedia.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Shumate,<\/p>\n<p>I am terribly disappointed at the news of the staff firings today. To do so after having just conducted a membership campaign is truly reprehensible. Therefore, I have cancelled my membership.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Joe Carl White<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>N.B. Today, Mrs. Shumate fired 10 of the local announcers on our classical public radio station, after they completed the membership drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Trapani Shumate Executive Director &amp; General Manager KUHA-FM Classical 91.7 Houston Public Radio lshumate@houstonpublicmedia.org Mrs. Shumate, I am terribly disappointed at the news of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-fV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}